Redpanda Cloud API: Dedicated Clusters

Dedicated clusters are fully Redpanda-managed, single-tenant Kafka clusters that run in Redpanda's own cloud account (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Redpanda provisions the VPC, Kubernetes, storage, and agent — you provide only the region, availability zones, throughput tier, and connectivity preferences. Enterprise capabilities (Tiered Storage, Remote Read Replicas, RBAC, OIDC, and more) are included by default.

The provisioning workflow has three phases: (1) create a Network resource scoped to cluster_type: TYPE_DEDICATED, (2) create a Cluster of type: TYPE_DEDICATED referencing that network, and (3) poll the returned Operation until state: STATE_COMPLETED. After the cluster reaches STATE_READY, call GetCluster to retrieve the per-cluster dataplane_api.url and connect to topics, ACLs, and users.

All API calls go to https://api.redpanda.com (ConnectRPC/HTTP-JSON gateway) and require a Bearer token from the Auth0 client-credentials flow. The same token and base URL work for Dedicated, BYOC, and Serverless control-plane calls.

Quickstart

# 1. Get an OAuth2 bearer token (client credentials)
TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST "https://auth.prd.cloud.redpanda.com/oauth/token" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials" \
  -d "client_id=${CLIENT_ID}" \
  -d "client_secret=${CLIENT_SECRET}" \
  -d "audience=cloudv2-production.redpanda.cloud" \
  | jq -r '.access_token')